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The Critical Impasse of Blanchot's Politics The Critical Impasse of Blanchot's Politics
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Far-Right Journalism in the 1930s Far-Right Journalism in the 1930s
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Otherness and the Nation's Abjection Otherness and the Nation's Abjection
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Antisemitism and the Mutilation of the Nation Antisemitism and the Mutilation of the Nation
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The Self's Exile The Self's Exile
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From Intellectual to Author From Intellectual to Author
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The Self and the Politics of Literature The Self and the Politics of Literature
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The Specter of Auschwitz: Memory and Shame The Specter of Auschwitz: Memory and Shame
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The Historicity of Literature The Historicity of Literature
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4 The Absent Author: Maurice Blanchot and the Subjection of Politics
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Published:October 2012
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This chapter analyzes the works of literary critic Maurice Blanchot. His youthful interwar writings helped shape a discourse of the nation, its substance and borders, haunted by the figure of an “other,” and articulated an obsession with the way the subject can emerge undivided and in harmony with the social body—concerns that far-right writers like Thierry Maulnier, Jean–Pierre Maxence, and Jean de Fabrègues also addressed. Politics and literature were the sites where Blanchot worked through his possible answer to the crisis of subjectivity, self, and nation, and his relation to the difference which became associated with Jewishness. Like the Young New Right intellectuals he was close to, Blanchot attempted to find a resolution to a seemingly untenable political situation, that of interwar France perceived to be in the throes of a cultural and moral crisis.
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